A federal judge says he won't scrap his own order for Louisiana to provide regular reports to federal officials on the state's private school tuition voucher program. Filed Monday, Judge Ivan Lemelle's ruling rejects arguments by five parents and the Black Alliance for Educational Options that he lacked jurisdiction over the program and that a U.S. Supreme Court ruling had changed the facts or law so that his ruling was no longer fair.

Lemelle says a 1975 desegregation order governing state spending on public schools clearly applies to the voucher program. And he says he had considered the Supreme Court ruling, which was issued in 2002.

An attorney for the parents and nonprofit did not immediately respond to an email requesting comment.